“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not of your own doing, it is the gift of God, not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
I seem compelled to search out little hideaways in the redwoods on my pathway of faith for GN. I have making side trips into Revelation for several years but it tends to become more and more consuming. I started using some Revelation references in the current GN because faith includes who we are, where we are going and how we get there. It is truly a blessing to spend time on The Revelation of Jesus Christ! It is all about Him.
Revelation has always been a weak link in my spectrum of understanding and now I find it so important that I must become more competent in it so we can use it in GN conversation. I find myself continually having to check references because this is new ground and GN output seems to getting slower and slower all the time. So I tend to get a little anxious about it. I’m sure my age has nothing to do with it
I had occasion to make a trip to Annapolis yesterday for a “grandparent’s” day visit. Annapolis is about a 2 hour jaunt one way so I wanted to include a visit on the other side of Annapolis to a therapy home near Walter Reed. I met Fran about 2½ years ago in Israel. At 98 she is still spry but her body is a little slow mending a broken femur. I try to get over to see her once a week as she mends and I like to print out the latest GN with a large font for her to read more easily. It has been a while since I have done this and since I didn’t have this one finished as I had hoped, I took an old GN written in 2005 on Faith and printed it with a large font after doing an edit. I delivered my edited 2005 piece from 2006 which I enjoyed reading more than Fran even if she can get to it.
Today my goal was to get the unfinished GN done but again too many side trips and many that I had no idea I would making including quite a little stroll in Ephesians 1. It is hard to look at Ephesians one briefly. So I decided to take the edited 2005 piece on Walking in Faith for Fran and send it out using the current GN format.
Hopefully, I can get through the clutter that is slowing me down. Although I do enjoy my side trips.
This is an explanation for what follows. The redwoods were very much part of my experience then and have been since way back in 1953 when I returned to my native California from high school in Spokane, WA.
Fran is doing well but will probably be in recovery for another three weeks. Pray for fruit on Fran’s spiritual tree.